Category Archives: sunset advisory commission

Lege TREND. Legislators Opposing Rural DPS Office Closures. 5 Reasons Why.

Reasons the rural Texas legislators oppose the Texas Susnet Commission’s recommednation to close 87 rural DPS offices:

  •  places an unfair burden on rural communities
  • many counties have only 1 office, and that office would no longer exist
  • long-standing tendency to shift resources away from rural areas
  • No demonstrated success is shifting funding away from rural areas
  • “The approach the Sunset staff has taken is penny wise and pound foolish. Reducing the services, security, and emergency…

TXDOT Sunset Nuts and Bolts. Report Available. 24 Recommendations.

Sunset Staff Report

Sunset timeline:

  • Submit responses to staff report through Novmeber 30th.
  • December 8th and 9th Sunset hearing

24 Sunset staff recommendations:

Require TxDOT to adopt one consistent set of statewide transportation goals, revise its approach to distributing funding to better align with these goals, and better analyze and report on the impact of funding decisions.

Require TxDOT to update its approach to project prioritization, evaluating a project’s strategic need…

Senate Interim Charges 2015. Accountability. Eliminate Toll Roads. No Eminent Domain for Private Toll Roads.

• TxDOT Funding:

  • Monitor any new & anticipated revenue appropriated to TXDOT
  • Recommendations that address project prioritization & selection, effectiveness of staffing levels and project delivery methods.

• Vehicle Inspection System

  • Evaluate the efficiency & effectiveness of the state’s Vehicle Inspection Program.
  • Recommend how to compress/otherwise reduce the number of required inspections.

• Regional Mobility Authorities

  • Review State Highway Fund grants…

TXDOT Sunset Commission Self Evaluation. Transportation Reinvestment Zones.

TXDOT submitted its Self Evaluation for its Sunset Review for the current cycle.  

Let’s see what they said about Transportation Reinvestment Zones.

Refresher about TRZs:  Collin County told the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding that they like this option.

What did TXDOT mention to Sunset? 

  • Recitation of the legislation that created TRZs:
  • Texas Transportation Institute Texas A&M University System has a $181,600…